[brucethemoose2]

The thing about machine learning is that it can fail very suddenly, in a very unhuman way.

So even if self driving works most of the time, it takes a lot of work to address weird edge cases even the most inebriated human would not mess up, that other drivers/pedestrians would not anticipate.

[joshe]

Nah, it's failure mode is to slow down and pull over. It would be amazing if drunk humans did the same.

[erictd]

Or randomly and suddenly change lanes or brake, or both, and you’d better be ready for that every second of your drive.

[D13Fd]

Or, you know, happily run you right into a tractor trailor or highway divider.